Latest from Jamie Crawley
Stripe’s $53 billion PayPal bid is a high-stakes play to own the future of digital payments
If Stripe acquires PayPal, the real prize could be consumer wallets, stablecoin issuance or the infrastructure powering the next generation of digital payments.
Crypto brokerage firm Alpaca raises $135 million for tokenized stock infrastructure
The company has previously cleared or held in custody roughly 94% of tokenized U.S. equities and now holds over $1.5 billion in underlying stocks.
Ledger wants AI agents to manage crypto without holding your keys
AI agents can read wallet balances and analyze portfolios but requires every sensitive action to be approved on a Ledger hardware device before it can be executed.
Inside the high-stakes race to build an open financial system specifically for AI bots
The newly-convened x402 Foundation is a neutral space where competitors and payment methods can work together to create an open standard for AI agentic commerce.
BlackRock's crypto assets fall 39% despite $15 billion of net inflows
BlackRock's digital asset funds attracted $15 billion in net inflows over the past year, but falling crypto prices drove the value of those holdings sharply lower.
Strategy feels 'very secure' until bitcoin reaches $8,000-$10,000, says CEO
Le highlighted increasing the U.S.-dollar reserve as an important lever in preferred stock STRC’s recovery back to around $90 having fallen below $75 last month.
Stripe mounts blockbuster $53 billion bid to buy PayPal
The bid, made together with Advent, follows an earlier expression of interest. PayPal has been reluctant to engage with the offer thus far.
Wikipedia blackout could hurt how AI engines like ChatGPT understand crypto
Wikipedia observes guidelines on crypto coverage that date back many years and may now be outdated, according to the report.
Japan’s biggest card network taps Circle to bring stablecoins to 40 million merchants
JCB and Circle will explore using USDC for cross-border payments and merchant transactions as Japan ramps up efforts to bring stablecoins into everyday commerce.
Bitcoin's BIP-110 sparked a fight over who gets to decide the future of Bitcoin
BIP-110 sought to limit non-financial data on Bitcoin's blockchain but instead reignited debates over censorship and decentralization.
